![THORPP, William (bookseller, Chester) – His engraved trade card [printed on paper], 1664, 133 x 85cm, the iconography including three coats-of-arms, and a hand pointing to an elaborately-tooled bible with clasps, the initials WT beside it, the wording below: ‘Printed for William Thorpp Book seller in the City of Chester, & are to be sould by him there at his shop at the hand & Bible neere the high Crosse & at the Stationers Armes in the Watergate Street, where also Books both new & old are to be bound and sold’.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_05388_0156_000(thorpp_william_his_engraved_trade_card_printed_on_paper_1664_133_x_85c033217).jpg?w=1)
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THORPP, William (bookseller, Chester) – His engraved trade card [printed on paper], 1664, 133 x 85cm, the iconography including three coats-of-arms, and a hand pointing to an elaborately-tooled bible with clasps, the initials WT beside it, the wording below: ‘Printed for William Thorpp Book seller in the City of Chester, & are to be sould by him there at his shop at the hand & Bible neere the high Crosse & at the Stationers Armes in the Watergate Street, where also Books both new & old are to be bound and sold’.
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SURVIVAL and valuable evidence of the book trade's representation in the north west of England. With a population of 7,164 in 1664, Chester was then roughly as big as Shrewsbury and Manchester, the largest town for some sixty miles around.
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SURVIVAL and valuable evidence of the book trade's representation in the north west of England. With a population of 7,164 in 1664, Chester was then roughly as big as Shrewsbury and Manchester, the largest town for some sixty miles around.
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